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- Tue Jan 06, 2015 6:04 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: It's all about China
- Replies: 123
- Views: 64985
Re: It's all about China
Oh my goodness, MachineGhost - that's... wow. I had no idea there were bear rescue facilities in Chengdu, but there obviously are. Thank you for posting that, and thank you for donating. There are some fantastic folks on this forum, there really are. Dualstow , believe it or not, I *have* seen th...
- Fri Jan 02, 2015 9:49 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: It's all about China
- Replies: 123
- Views: 64985
Re: It's all about China
Wow, guys! Thank you all so much for your kind words! Dualstow - Yes, I think each and every one of us could wake up every morning grateful to not be an animal in China...particularly any animal through which or with which one could make money. For example, the big animal-linked expat outrage while ...
- Fri Jan 02, 2015 12:45 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: It's all about China
- Replies: 123
- Views: 64985
It's all about China
Hi, guys! So... in another thread, WiseOne and Reub both were asking about my time in China (by the way, I live in Japan now). Reub said: "Yes please share your insights on China with us. Did you live in a big city and for how long? Is there any pure capitalism going on there? Is the economy to...
- Thu Jan 01, 2015 7:19 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Buying Stuff? Ugh.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3985
Re: Buying Stuff? Ugh.
Hi back, Sophie!! We are NOT living in China any longer, thank goodness. We are now living in Japan. Our lungs barely survived living in China, lol. The pollution was so heinously bad that a normal American truly cannot even imagine the horrors of it. There are a couple things that we miss (the foo...
- Thu Jan 01, 2015 5:39 am
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Buying Stuff? Ugh.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3985
Buying Stuff? Ugh.
Hi, guys, I need someone to slap me, please. So my kids (ages 20 and 16) have Vanguard investment accounts. These accounts have basically been funded with grandparent birthday and Christmas checks over the years. They're super small accounts (something like $2,500 per kid) and over the years I've so...
- Sun Feb 02, 2014 5:30 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Thrift Savings Plan / TSP allocations and balancing problems
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9972
Re: Thrift Savings Plan / TSP allocations and balancing problems
Thank you, Sophie!sophie wrote:
Nice to hear from you MomTo2Boys!
- Sun Feb 02, 2014 5:17 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Thrift Savings Plan / TSP allocations and balancing problems
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9972
Re: Thrift Savings Plan / TSP allocations and balancing problems
May I ask why you switched?HB Reader wrote:
I switched from CSRS to FERS in the 1980s.
My husband and I often moan and wail because we came in too late to be CSRS and had to be FERS...
- Sun Feb 02, 2014 5:15 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Thrift Savings Plan / TSP allocations and balancing problems
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9972
Re: Thrift Savings Plan / TSP allocations and balancing problems
I would also encourage most Federal employees to use the TSP Roth option. I wish it had been around when I was contributing. It may not offer many immediate tax benefits (if I understand it correctly), but after having done a number Traditional IRA to Roth IRA conversions in recent years I think ...
- Thu Jan 30, 2014 6:56 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Thrift Savings Plan / TSP allocations and balancing problems
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9972
Re: Thrift Savings Plan / TSP allocations and balancing problems
I second what Sophie says. My husband is a federal employee and has been for 14 years or so. We are contributing the max to our TSP. And, quite frankly, we're doing pretty much a 60 (stock)/ 40(bond) split in that bad boy. It's just easier that way. We're a few years older than you guys - but not wa...
- Thu May 16, 2013 3:29 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Phone Records of Journalists Seized by Justice Department
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4755
Re: Phone Records of Journalists Seized by Justice Department
Just so we're all clear, "Justice Department" actually means "FBI."
Carry on...
Carry on...
- Wed Apr 17, 2013 8:36 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Obama's Complete 2012 Tax Return
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6024
Re: Obama's Complete 2012 Tax Return
Perhaps the fair thing would be for all the tax returns of federal employees to be made public. My husband is a federal employee. You have no right to see my family's tax returns, our address, the names and social security numbers of my children, etc. Many federal employees are law enforcement of...
- Fri Mar 08, 2013 9:07 am
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Troubled Waters Ahead for the PP
- Replies: 64
- Views: 27016
Re: Troubled Waters Ahead for the PP
That? Is awesome.MachineGhost wrote:
Boobus Americanus
- Wed Feb 27, 2013 8:52 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Help me please, y'all math whiz people (re: malaria & Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2893
Re: Help me please, y'all math whiz people (re: malaria & Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)
By the way, SORRY to everyone! I had meant to post this under "Other Discussions" and now I see that somehow I mangled where it was supposed to go and inadvertently stuck it under "Variable Portfolio Discussion!" I'm a moron. Well, and my horrible internet is no help. Sorry! Car...
- Wed Feb 27, 2013 7:41 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Help me please, y'all math whiz people (re: malaria & Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2893
Re: Help me please, y'all math whiz people (re: malaria & Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)
What does "CB-ITT" mean? "p" is a measurement of statistical significance. 0.03 is within the accepted range (less than 0.05) for accepting that the hypothesis, that CB-ITT is related to malaria risk, is true. Without knowing what CB-ITT is, I can't tell you in plain English wh...
- Tue Feb 26, 2013 11:52 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Help me please, y'all math whiz people (re: malaria & Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2893
Help me please, y'all math whiz people (re: malaria & Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)
Hello, everyone who is smarter than I am. In researching malaria rates and whether folks in urban Dar es Salaam should use chemoprophylaxis or not... and these sorts of fun topics relating to traveling/living there (anyone been there? Anyone like it or hate it? Or anything?)... I ran across a quote ...
- Tue Feb 26, 2013 5:26 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: A Tale of Two Cows
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2901
Re: A Tale of Two Cows
The China cows part is totally 100% right on.
The American corporation is, as well, sadly. I hate how corporate America treats its production animals (for example, debeaking chickens and whatnot). Although I would far rather be an animal in America than in China.
The American corporation is, as well, sadly. I hate how corporate America treats its production animals (for example, debeaking chickens and whatnot). Although I would far rather be an animal in America than in China.
- Sat Feb 23, 2013 8:40 am
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Investment Management Fees Are (Much) Higher Than You Think
- Replies: 48
- Views: 15558
Re: Investment Management Fees Are (Much) Higher Than You Think
I need to go get me some popcorn and sit down on a nice comfy couch so I can enjoy where this thread is certain to go from here.charliemckelvey wrote: Wouldn't it have been better to have someone on your retirement castle wall to move your assets to safety?
- Tue Feb 19, 2013 7:29 am
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: I have a short term gain/loss of -$2,252
- Replies: 30
- Views: 11532
Re: I have a short term gain/loss of -$2,252
So here's the thread I started in November when everything had been down for me for two months: http://gyroscopicinvesting.com/forum/http://77.104.139.218/~gyroscop/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=4 Hope I stuck that link in here the right way. ANYHOO, like I said, I started that thread after just two months...
- Tue Feb 19, 2013 7:04 am
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: I have a short term gain/loss of -$2,252
- Replies: 30
- Views: 11532
Re: I have a short term gain/loss of -$2,252
I have only began investing in September 2012 and since then I have always had a negative in my short term gain/loss. I currently have a negative $2,252 short gain loss. I realize that I have to wait the storm and keep this in for the long haul, but just starting in the investment allocation and ...
- Tue Feb 19, 2013 6:52 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Any Subaru owners out there?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4689
Re: Any Subaru owners out there?
Don't know if you're a buy-and-hold car owner like you are with the PP :D, but I've owned the same Subaru (Forester) since 2000 and dude, that car is still going STRONG. It has just a touch under 200,000 miles and I swear it will go forever. And I will let it, let me just say. But, then again, I'm ...
- Tue Jan 29, 2013 6:16 am
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Allocation classes all up?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4090
Re: Allocation classes all up?
My understanding is that the PP allocations take advantage of the fact that the asset classes are not correlated, and that at any given time one or two are up and one or two are down... Is there a good explanation for this? (Maybe that they are trending in different directions?) And I hope we will ...
- Tue Jan 29, 2013 6:13 am
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: How long of an assessment period?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7124
Re: How long of an assessment period?
So I set up a PP in October, and as of today it is down 1.5%. Just want you to know that you're not alone in this. I set up my PP initially last September. I'd been dollar cost averaging in monthly through about November/December. I haven't added any new money lately because there are some other th...
- Thu Jan 24, 2013 3:52 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Gratitude Journal
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7530
Re: Gratitude Journal
My wife and I began a little dinner ritual a few months ago where we say something thing we're grateful for before we eat and have found it to be a wonderful relaxant and stress reliever. Really helps keep things in perspective. Don't you run out of things to be grateful for? I would think there i...
- Thu Jan 24, 2013 3:39 am
- Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Platinum'S Rise
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1973
Re: Platinum'S Rise
Although the idea of a giant trillion dollar platinum coin is hilarious ... They would just stamp "one trillion" on it and call it good... Isn't it?! I read about that trillion dollar coin thing in the news and was pretty much Is this how far we've sunk? Really?! That we're actually discu...
- Wed Jan 23, 2013 7:00 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: How one man escaped from a North Korean prison camp
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6463
Re: How one man escaped from a North Korean prison camp
Interesting that China didn't return him. Can't fathom what he had to go through to get from China to South Korea. To exit China? For South Korea? With no documentation - ? IIRC, the border between North and South Korea is a heavily guarded DMZ and would be extremely difficult to penetrate directly...